oh, the book sounds fascinating, i'll have to look it up! the issue does seem to apply to so many scenes; that reminds me as well of fashion and the ways that even explicitly anticapitalist/anti fashion industry/underground fashion movements can get absorbed by institutions and eventually reproduced/mass produced in softened and less "challenging" forms. serves double purpose to earn the industry more money, and also as a bonus rob a form of potentially political creative expression of its meaning.